You are a 16-year-old girl, going about your business, walking along the streets near your family home. All of a sudden a van pulls up and a group of men accost you. Laughing and yelling, they drag ...

Bride kidnapping remains a common practice in a handful of countries. And when young women are kidnapped into marriage, their babies pay a price, suggests new research. The researchers looked at the ...

Despite public awareness campaigns and strict laws against the spread of misinformation, fake videos continue to circulate on social media. The latest involves a short clip claiming a landlord’s son ...

Bride kidnapping, also known as marriage by abduction or marriage by capture, involves a man abducting the woman he wishes to marry. The woman is often taken unexpectedly and sometimes forced into ...

A protest against bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, on April 8, 2021, after a young woman abducted for marriage was found dead. Vyacheslav Oseledko/AFP via Getty Images There are many ...

Sports journalist Gulzhan Turdubayeva still cries when she thinks about the day she was kidnapped, taken to the home of an unknown man and told she would marry him. "He was quite short. Apart from ...

Apprehension enveloped Bokkos Local Government Area of Plateau State yesterday as a bride-to-be, Farmat Paul was kidnapped some hours before her wedding. The Nation learnt that the bride-to-be and the ...

In rural Kyrgyzstan, an estimated 1 in 3 marriages begin with an abduction, researchers and rights groups say. Unaware of abductors waiting for them outside their workplace or home, women are forcibly ...

In Russia’s southern regions, brides are increasingly being kidnapped at the request of the girls themselves In Russia’s southern regions, brides are increasingly being kidnapped at the request of the ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Bride kidnapping remains a common practice in a handful of countries. And when young women are kidnapped into marriage, their babies pay a price, suggests new research from Duke ...

Guangqing Chi receives funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the USDA National ...